After finding a positive COVID-19 case connected to a visitor last Saturday, a Hamilton bar decided to embark on a disinfection operation with a device that has been difficult to locate since the pandemic began in March.
At an Instagram post Monday, Stone Church Road East’s Kitchen and Effect bar said the alleged inflamed visitor was in business between 8 p.m. and Saturday, July 25.
The bar’s reaction to the episode of renting a Hamilton-based company that claims to have been “bombed” with calls from stage 3 of the province’s reopening plan.
“A month and a part ago, we were bombarded with barbers and hairdressers,” Mazin Kulom says of the electrostatic disinfection services.
“We’ve received a lot of childcare calls in recent years and only received tons of calls from bars and restaurants.”
Companies related to public meetings, such as bars, restaurants and gymnasiums, have now received the green light through Ontario to open as a component of Stage 3, which has occupied the Kulom and Peter Vlahic components in recent weeks.
The couple, who appeared on an Instagram post last week through Cause and Effect, says they perform an average of 15 tasks a week and spends 4 to five hours consistent with task cleaning businesses with a professional wireless electrostatic rear spray.
“It produces steam that is statically charged when the jet comes out of the nozzle and has an electron,” Vlahic said.
“The spray adheres to the surfaces and does not create a solution in the air for others to breathe.”
The electrostatic sprayer, manufactured through Victory Innovations Co., is an aerosol formula that several brands have started producing to whiten surfaces more successfully amid the pandemic.
Vlahic and Kulom contacted the manufacturer prior to the pandemic to acquire the sprayer as a key component of a long-term cleaning and disinfection company.
“We’ve been in contact with them for about six to seven months, even before the pandemic happened, because we were going to get into the disinfection before that,” Vlahic said.
However, partners had to wait patiently for their order as a valuable tool when the pandemic hit.
“And the moment we placed our order, this pandemic ended and the company ran out in minutes,” Vlahic said.
Bridget Hagan of Akhia Communications, which works for the advertising company representing Victory Innovations, says the call has been superior for the two models of electrostatic sprayers sold through the company.
“They have noticed a sharp increase in the industries of that diversity, from hospitals to sports facilities and schools,” Hagan said. “You know, they see a lot of them, as well as airports and retail stores.”
Public Health Ontario says it is “unclear” whether electrostatic spray is more effective than traditional surface disinfection strategies for COVID-19, but the firm says that most likely with the application of a standardized concentrated javelin water solution, the approach would also make it disinfect coronavirus.
Clyde Coventry, director of St. Joseph’s Department of Environmental Services, the hospital had invested in two 360 Clorox Total electrostatic sprays, which are used as a “complement” to their key cleaning processes.
“It’s an electrostatic sprinkler, should you connect it to the wall?” said Coventry. “There is a chemical that is placed in the system, the cause is covered and a rod loads the debris and sprays the chemical on all surfaces.”
Coventry says the hospital invested in sprinklers between February and March, as they begin to see COVID-19 in North America.
“He brought me the above in the year. We were looking for him. I’m not going to buy one,” Coventry said. “I bought one when we started seeing Asia and the pandemic was starting to spread.”
Games are by no means a component of the hospital’s main cleaning method, as environmental facilities still rely heavily on surface contaminants that employ a hand-applied and air-dried disposable hydrogen peroxide fabric technology.
Coventry says it’s used as a cleaning measure at night.
“Therefore, in spaces like our evaluation center, where we see the highest volumes of traffic from imaginable or potential patients,” Coventry said, “what we do at the end of the day when those spaces are closed, we use the electrostatic spray as an additional disinfection step.”
Richard MacDonald, head of food and water protection at Hamilton Public Health, says sprinklers appear to be effective in restricting the amount of COVID-19 in a place to eat, assuming Canada-approved chlorine, ammonium or iodine responses are used and product commands are followed. through the letter.
However, MacDonald says that at a food service company, cutting the debris is the first step before applying a sprinkler.
“Obviously, hot water and soap are very useful to start lifting and emulsifying with food scraps or anything on the surface and then applying the disinfectant to make it the most effective plan,” McDonald said.
On Friday, The Hamilton Medical Officer of Health sent a letter to the city’s bar and dining room and operators reminding them of their “responsibilities and requirements” for public health.
“Restaurant and bar owners and operators have a legal responsibility to take appropriate measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19,” Dr. Elizabeth Richardson said in a statement.
“This is mainly in the resulting instances and groupings of bars and restaurants that have been reported in Canada and around the world.”
Richardson went on to say that the physical distance between the tables, the mask worn by staff and visitors, keeping other people seated, and recording a visitor registry were just some of the obligations of restaurants and bars due to the existing pandemic.
Kulom and Peter Vlahic of Electrostatic say they have made a significant investment in the sprinkler only to use within their cleaning service, but also to sell it.
“We are in the process of updating our online page at this time to one more grocery buying site as we will be offering the product,” Vlahic said.
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